1778. Two-sided etching, line-engraving and aquatint on paper. Image measures 18 x 14 1/2". This etching depicts William Pitt (1708-78), first Earl of Chatham and known as "the Great Commoner," who was a long-time opponent of Britain's policy towards its American colonies. Barry published these two prints in 1778 in posthumous support of the Earl, writing at the bottom, "This print is most respectfully addressed to the Patriotic members of both houses of Parliament and to all who preserve a...... More

Chez Bertrand. Stipple engraving. Image size 27.5 x 19.5 inches. Sheet size 30.25 x 23 inches. Expert repairs and lined, image loss to lower right corner. Stamp at lower right corner. Fabulous oversize portrait of Charles Philippe, the Count of Artois - later Charles X of France. He was known as a charming, frivolous and impulsive King and before the Revolution, as a Count, he was a close friend of Marie Antoinette. Text reads 'S.A. Royale, Monsieur, Charles-Philippe de France..... More

Nuremberg: N.F. Eisenberger, 1760. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 13.75" x 8.75". Richly colored illustration of a pineapple plant; plate 568 from the German edition of "A Curious Herbal" titled "Herbarium Blackwellianum" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. This edition is a revised and enlarged format engraved by Nicolaus Friedrich Eisenberger and published by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew, a botanist and physician. Minor scattered staining, aging to edges. Elizabeth Blackwell..... More

London: John Nourse, 1737. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 12" x 8", sheet measures 14.25" x 9.25". Shows some foxing and mat burn. In very good condition. Illustration of an artichoke showing flower, fruit and seed; plate 458 "A Curious Herbal" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) was trained as an artist but untrained in botany. She collaborated with her botanist husband while he was in debtor's..... More

Nuremberg: Jacob Trew, 1760. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 13.75" x 8.75". Richly colored illustration of a quince branch and flower; plate 137 from the German edition of "A Curious Herbal" titled "Herbarium Blackwellianum" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. This edition is a revised and enlarged format engraved by Nicolaus Friedrich Eisenberger and published by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew, a botanist and physician. Minor scattered staining, aging to edges..... More

Nuremberg: Jacob Trew, 1760. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 13.75" x 8.75". Richly colored illustration of a dragon tree branch with details of the whole tree and fruit; plate 358 from the German edition of "A Curious Herbal" titled "Herbarium Blackwellianum" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. This edition is a revised and enlarged format engraved by Nicolaus Friedrich Eisenberger and published by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew, a botanist and..... More

London: John Nourse, 1737. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 11.75" x 7.25", sheet measures 14.75" x 10". Shows some foxing. In very good condition. Illustration of an elecampane showing flower and seed; plate 473 from "A Curious Herbal" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. She pairs the with Helenium or 'snuff weed' which was inhaled to rid the body of evil spirits. Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) was trained as an artist..... More

London: 1737. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 11.75" x 7.25", sheet measures 14.75" x 10". Shows some foxing. In very good condition. Illustration of an Euphorbia; plate 340 from "A Curious Herbal" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) was trained as an artist but untrained in botany. She collaborated with her botanist husband while he was in debtor's prison and with the curator of the Chelsea Physick..... More

Nuremberg: Jacob Trew, 1760. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 13.75" x 8.75". Richly colored illustration of a fig branch with details of fruit; plate 125 from the German edition of "A Curious Herbal" titled "Herbarium Blackwellianum" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. This edition is a revised and enlarged format engraved by Nicolaus Friedrich Eisenberger and published by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew, a botanist and physician. Minor scattered staining, aging..... More

London: John Nourse, 1731. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 11.75" x 7.25", sheet measures 18" x 11". Shows some foxing. In very good condition. Illustration of Lapathum sativum et Patientia; plate 489 from "A Curious Herbal" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) was trained as an artist but untrained in botany. She collaborated with her botanist husband while he was in debtor's prison and with the curator..... More

Nuremberg: Jacob Trew, 1760. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 13.75" x 8.75". Richly colored illustration of a cantaloupe and its vine, plate 329 from the German edition of "A Curious Herbal" titled "Herbarium Blackwellianum" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. This edition is a revised and enlarged format engraved by Nicolaus Friedrich Eisenberger and published by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew, a botanist and physician. Minor scattered staining, aging to edges..... More

Nuremberg: JacobTrew, 1760. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 13.75" x 8.75". Richly colored illustration of a white oak branch with details of acorns, flower, and gall; plate 487 from the German edition of "A Curious Herbal" titled "Herbarium Blackwellianum" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. This edition is a revised and enlarged format engraved by Nicolaus Friedrich Eisenberger and published by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew, a botanist and physician. Minor..... More

London: John Nourse, 1737. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 11.75" x 7.25", sheet measures 18.25" x 11". Shows some foxing. In very good condition. Illustration of the true Euphorbium; plate 339 from "A Curious Herbal" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) was trained as an artist but untrained in botany. She collaborated with her botanist husband while he was in debtor's prison and with the curator of..... More

London: Churchill, John, 1704. Engraving. Image measures 11" x 14". Named after the patron saint of Wales, Fort St. David lies in Pulicat on the Coromandel Coast, in South East India. It served as a trading post of the British East India Trading Company. The engraving shows a bird's eye view of the fort and its layout. From Churchill's "Collection of Voyages and Travels"More

New York: Harper's Weekly, 1891. View. Uncolored wood engraving. Image measures 13.75" x 20". Beautiful double page view of the Machinery Hall at the World's Fair, a projection of the designs by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted that were realized in 1893. Published in Harper's Weekly, May 30, 1891. A few tears to edges, light creasing to lower corners.More

1926. Etching. Signed in pencil. Image measures 8.25" x 10.75". Sheet measures 11.25" x 15.25". This print provides a lovely view of the Old Mulford House, a colonial farmhouse in Easthampton, basking in the shadow of a tree in the front yard. Hassam has rendered both with a remarkable Impressionist penstroke which appears spontaneous and immediate even in the more enduring medium of etching. By dispersing white spots throughout the shadow, the artist conveys the shadow's flickering impermanence. The print..... More

London. View. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Page measures 16 1/8" x 21", plate measures 13.75" x 17". Beautifully detailed garden landscape, circa 1708. Johannes Kip (1653-1722) was a Dutch draughtsman, engraver, and print dealer who accompanied the court of William of Orange to England following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He settled in Westminster where besides having a thriving print selling business, he worked for various London publishers producing engravings. This print was published in "Britannia Illustrata or Views of..... More

Augsburg: L'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts Libereaux. Engraved view of New York with modern hand coloring. Image measures 12" x 15.5". An "optic view" print originally meant to be projected and seen through optic viewing device (therefore, the title printed on the page is backwards). Includes a description in both German and French which loosely translates to: "New York, a city in North America on the Island named Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, which was first settled..... More

Piuro, Italy: MERIAN, Mattheus, 1639. Copper engraving. Image measures 11 1/4" x 6 3/4". These two engravings provide two views of the Italian town of Piuro, in Lombardy, before and after the 1618 collapse of a nearby mountain. The mountain had been previously heavily mined and tunneled, and it is likely this instability that caused it to collapse in the wake of heavy rainstorms, burying the town. Of the 16 important sites in the town which appear in the upper..... More

Frankfurt: 1655. Panoramic view. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 9.75" x 20". Panoramic view of a Swiss mountain valley. Numerical reference legend along lower border of engraving. Matthaus Merian (1593-1650), was a draughtsman, topographical engraver, and publisher from Switzerland. This engraving was published near the time of his death. Print is in two pieces with original join. Minor aging and chipping to left and top edges.More

Frankfurt: 1655. View. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 8.25" x 12.5". Panoramic view overlooking Rotenburg. Beautiful scroll along the bottom lists 18 landmarks, which have tiny, corresponding numbers above the distant steeples. Matthaus Merian (1593-1650), was a draughtsman, topographical engraver, and publisher from Switzerland. This engraving was published near the time of his death. Right margin is cropped. Minor aging around edges.More

Frankfurt: 1655. Panoramic view. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 10.25" x 7". Panoramic view of town of Schlan with fields and landscape in foreground, strong impression. Schlan is near Prague and was founded at the site of a salt spring. Slani, the original Czech name, means salty. Matthaus Merian (1593-1650), was a draughtsman, topographical engraver, and publisher from Switzerland. This engraving was published near the time of his death. Minor chipping to edges. Two inch tear to bottom margin, and small..... More

Paris: 1768. Fruit botanical. Stipple engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 10.5" x 8.5". Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) was an engineer, physician and a botanist based in Paris, France. He was commissioned by the French Academy of Sciences in 1728 to investigate a disease that was destroying the saffron plants in Gâtinais. His publication of the findings enabled him to become a member and later the president of the "Académie des Sciences". His constant desire for experimentation, to know..... More

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